40 Names of Jesus in 40 days of Lent — Day 42
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Beloved Son
40 Names of Jesus in 40 days of Lent — Day 6 and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; 17 and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”Matthew 3:16-17 The feast of the Baptism of Jesus is celebrated on 6th January, …
Bread of Life
40 Names of Jesus in 40 days of Lent — Day 5 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.John 6:35 I have written about this before, in 2016. It took me two posts to do it. Here they are, …
Gatekeepers — Matthew 21:23–27
The King’s judgements It is easy to take this passage on its own as a question of where the authority of Jesus comes from and use it to branch out into what Christians believe the authority of Jesus to be; there's nothing wrong with that and I will be doing it later. Bear in mind …
It wasn’t the fig tree’s fault — Matthew 21:18–22
The King’s judgements One thing to remember when reading through Matthew's Gospel is that things are not necessarily consecutive, Matthew was writing a gospel, not a history, but they are carefully placed so that the stories that run together affect each other. The previous passage had children praising Jesus because of his miracles but the …
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Out of the mouths of infants — Matthew 21:14–17
The King’s judgements The children got what Jesus was about before the adults. What have they got that adults have not? Some say that they have a simplicity that adults have lost. 14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes …
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Run for your life — Psalm 142
Psalms of David In this Psalm, David prays to God twice, with a different result each time. The books of Psalms are roughly themed like this: Book 1: Psalms 1 - 41: God is beside us.Book 2: Psalms 42 - 72: God goes before usBook 3: Psalms 73 - 89: God is all around us.Book …
Spring clean — Matthew 21:12–13
The King’s judgements "A den of robbers," said Jesus about the temple. But if so who were those who ran the temple of Jerusalem stealing from? The images above show different stages in the life of the Jewish temple. It started out as a tent so that it could be transported through the desert from …
The other triumphal entry — Matthew 21:6–11
The King’s judgements I love a sporting victory parade. The Olympic- and Paralympic parades through London in 2012 and 2016 were glorious events of sporting achievements were glorious events, as was the 2019 parade in Liverpool to celebrate them winning the UEFA Champions League that year. Sporting parades are generally happy events, though the crowd …
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How many people ride donkeys? — Matthew 21:1–6
The King’s judgments How many people rode into Jerusalem on a warhorse? Not many, only Kings and generals coming in victory, or conquerers who enter to take over the land they have vanquished. How many people do you think entered into Jerusalem on or leading a donkey? There must have been thousands of them, the …
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Making an ass of myself 